A day of rest
When you’re driving change, try to remember: Every now and then you need to let yourself rest.
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Celebrating an amazing day of driving change
This morning I got to witness a roomful of people celebrating how well they are driving change. It was amazing and fabulous! I listened to their words and their stories: We get to. We have a sense of urgency. It was easy to find small wins. We have so many big wins we can’t talk
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Quote of the week
All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the “conventional wisdom.” All improvements originate in a critical mind that mistrusts the “image” projected by some powerful organism. The innovator of ideas and social critic are essential to a free society; they are what makes the society free.” – Admiral H.
Quote of the Week
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” Henry David Thoreau Catch the quote of the week here or on Twitter (@engineforchange).
Who gets to make a difference?
…the person who tries, fails and tries again. At work last week we celebrated the success of an issue I’d been working on for nine years. Some wins come quickly. Some don’t. For those hard to achieve changes, the only way to someday win is by being willing to try, fail and try again. For
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Stop waiting. Start learning.
Have you ever caught yourself in a meeting thinking, “How does that guy know about that and I don’t?” Have you ever toured a new place and wondered, “Why didn’t my boss show me this sooner?” Have you ever left training saying, “Why didn’t the company send us to this years ago?” If you’ve had
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It’s the journey
I’m typically an impatient person. But tell me a good story about an incredible (or even a mildly interesting) journey and I will sit in rapt attention. For example, I never get bored reading, watching or listening to anything about Lewis and Clark’s journey to the Pacific ocean. I think my fascination with any journey
Driving Change versus Driving People
Learning new things often requires learning new terms, especially when the old terms (e.g., leadership, change management) are overburdened with vague and contradictory definitions and descriptions. Through my work with large organizational change, I’ve learned that I need new terms to describe two very different change methods, driving change versus driving people. I’ve found driving
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Create opportunities for others
If you want to drive change, you’ll want to practice creating opportunities for others. The result of offering an opportunity can be big or small, but sometimes the result is amazing. Some say we learn best through stories, so I’ve included a few stories below the fold. The stories are pictures of what creating an
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I dare you to comment in 2010
As some of you have contacted me through other means and mentioned your nervousness at posting comments, I’m laying down a New Year’s challenge: I dare you to comment in 2010. Feel free to take me up on the dare at your earliest opportunity. Update: Note that I do have a filter on so the
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